The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Chip/Server Innovator'

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Security/Privacy Booster'

#38 Edward Felten - Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs; works at what he calls 'the interface of computer security and privacy, and technology policy.'

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Security Voice'

#37 Alan Paller - SANS Institute
Director of research and a major voice in computer security.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Vulnerability Researcher'

#36 H.D. Moore - BreakingPoint Systems; Metasploit
Director of security research at BreakingPoint; he's rewriting the rules on flaw disclosure and leading research into new classes of vulnerabilities.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Social Networking Perfecters'

#35 Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson - MySpace
Maybe they didn't invent social networking, but they perfected it with MySpace, which now has more than 150 million users.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Apache Founder'

#34 Brian Behlendorf - Apache
One of the founders of the Apache Group, creator of the Web's most popular and durable Web server software.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Ubuntu Chief'

#33 Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu
Head of Ubuntu, which has quickly become one of the best and most popular Linux distros out today. He has also forced other Linux vendors to rethink how they operate.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'DOD IT Head'

#32 John G. Grimes - U.S. Department of Defense
CIO of the DOD; besides heading the massive and important IT organization, he is driving the DOD's 'net-centricity' IT doctrine.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Treo Inventor'

#31 Jeff Hawkins, Numenta
Founder of Palm and inventor of the Treo; now researching the connection between neuroscience and computing with Numenta and the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Copyright Reform Fighter'

#30 Lawrence Lessig - Stanford University
Law professor and author is the most vocal proponent of copyright and trademark reform; was Special Master in the U.S. v. Microsoft case; challenged copyright law before the Supreme Court, a

The Top 100 Most Influential People In IT, Part 3 - 'Venture Capitalist'